The kids were gone and Joe was on a business trip. Home alone, for the first time in ages, I had the pleasure of experiencing the difference between alone time and lonely time. Lonely is a state of mind versus being unto oneself. It’s easy to feel completely isolated in a full house, where everyone […]

Despite popular belief, the female praying mantis does not always bite her mate’s head off during sex. Scientists have observed that this aggressive behavior coined, sexual cannibalism is more likely to happen in a terrarium or captivity, where the female praying mantis has no place to spread her wings after doing the wild thing. Afforded […]